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nouna female sovereign ruler
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nounoffensive term for a homosexual mantype of:
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nouna competitor who holds a preeminent position
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nounan especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
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"her pawn queened"verbbecome a queentype of:
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noun(chess) the most powerful piecetype of:
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nounone of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queentype of:
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verbpromote to a queen, as of a pawn in chesstype of:
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"Paris is the queen of cities" "the queen of ocean liners"nounsomething personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kindtype of:
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nounthe only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggstype of:
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Definition that contains queen
- here queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology; sister and wife of Zeus remembered for her jealously of the many mortal women Zeus fell in love with; identified with Roman Juno
- anne Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)
- howard Queen of England as the fifth wife of Henry VIII who was accused of adultery and executed (1520-1542)
- elizabeth Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603)
- grey Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)
- victoria queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)
- seymour Queen of England as the third wife of Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI (1509-1537)
- hera queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology; sister and wife of Zeus remembered for her jealously of the many mortal women Zeus fell in love with; identified with Roman Juno
- nefertiti queen of Egypt and wife of Akhenaton (14th century BC)
- parr Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548)